Coffee cake question. Can I mix the butter & dry ingredients and add the wet stuff the next day?
PJ asked:
I want to mix up my dry ingredients and butter, then refrigerate that and mix the wet stuff in and bake the coffee cake Saturday while camping. Will that work okay?
The recipe calls for cold butter, not melted.
I want to mix up my dry ingredients and butter, then refrigerate that and mix the wet stuff in and bake the coffee cake Saturday while camping. Will that work okay?
The recipe calls for cold butter, not melted.
It should work fine. My mom used to do that sort of thing quite a lot to save time later.
You should be able to mix all the dry stuff but if you add the butter right away, it might not turn out very well in the end. I’d suggest that you melt the butter while camping and then add the wet stuff to it and cook…
good luck
I see no problem.
I guess so, since the butter is to be added cold, otherwise I’d say no.
I would not do it that way. May make the flour turn to paste and not mix properly.
That is the basis of all our “mixes” we purchase in the grocery store. They have the dry ingredients blended then the shortening blended or cut in and are packed in an airtight package for use later.
I make my “pancake” mix to take camping. With it I can make coffee cake, pancakes, biscuits, and lots of other things. I keep it in the pantry most of the time in a sealed glass jar.
For only over night you won’t need to refrigerate it. If it was going to be during summer temperatures, you would want to keep it in a cooler place.
Our great grandmothers used butter rather than the new stuff OleoMargarine as it wasn’t invented yet. They kept the butter in a jar hanging in the well or cistern or in a “cold” box just outside the kitchen window. This had a burlap cover and was in a location where the sun rarely reached but the breeze did.
Just cut your butter into the dry ingredients with a fork til it resembles very fine corn meal. Stick it in a jar or a ziplock baggie or box and toss it into your “pantry” box.
yes, you can